Now that TCP/IP connections over WIFI or 3G/4G are practically everywhere, consumers are able to use a variety of machines and devices at any given time of day to access business applications. As this increase in "smart" devices expands with no end in sight, so does the large amount of data that needs to be processed and acted upon. Earlier this year IBM announced MessageSight, an appliance-based messaging server that is optimized to address the massive scale requirements of machine to machine (m2m) and mobile user scenarios.... [More]

Even some WebSphere MQ veterans may be unfamiliar with the term MQTT (MQ Telemetry Transport) although they probably are affected by it in their everyday lives. Do you receive Facebook Messenger notices on your smartphone? If so, then it’s likely you’re getting that notification through the MQTT protocol. The protocol was invented by Dr Andy Stanford-Clark of IBM, and Arlen Nipper of Arcom (now Eurotech), and is openly published with a royalty-free license. MQTT is included as the MQ Telemetry component of WebSphere MQ version 7.1 software... [More]